I have posted this before. my honing i have good confidence and get very good eges thanxs to this site setting bevel removing chips no problems nower days etc. The one thing i still not 100 percent about is whilst honing regular blades new or old keeping them flat in x pattern on flat lapped hones such as nortons or naturals etc is that i watch the wave infront of my edge making sure as performing x stroke the wave runs evenly along full lenght of my hone which it does then i perform black marker test and low and behold marker is always left at very toe or heel either just one side and the other side it could be just toe or heel which realy bugs me and baffles me. I try then 45 degree angle this does'nt work for me slight rolling x and just slight catches those parts and i find it easier to hone that way.The point is we are suposed to hone flat unless blade is real warped or a real smiler. I spoke to a honmeister and he says the very cutting edge should'nt be sharp or refrase does'nt have to be sharp at the very toe and heal i'm talking very ends or begining. Do any of you guys find this problem?

I have the special idition silver wing i black maked the edge and found same problem except a quarter down the blade on one side only just of the middle the marker was not being removed but the water was being pushed along that part of the edge this real;y baffled me the oposite side to that part of the edge the marker totaly removed it strange but my last ti was exactly the same this does shave well. To be honest the bevel is not very well unifirmed i can tell by traces of marker being left whilst honing flat. I took this razor to 1k and i would say literaly in that section where marker is not being removed ith naked eye when i use 30 k loop i can see just the very egde and i mean just is being removed. this razor i brought was purchased shave ready by the vendor and it was i think he only had to give it 10 laps on 10k naniwa so it must of been pritty good out of the box any way. any advice or if any one as experianced this info would be apreciated i no rolling x solves these problems but i'm thinking is my tecnique i even light hold toe down toe just to make sure razor is flat i don't normaly do that.